Being-in-Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World

Bruce Ellis Benson; Norman Wirzba

Published by Fordham University Press 2015

Being-in-Creation

Human Responsibility in an Endangered World

Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba
Edited by: Brian Treanor

In the series Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823265022

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About this book

Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.

Author / Editor information

Treanor Brian :

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an “earthy” hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.Benson Bruce Ellis :

Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.Wirzba Norman :

Norman Wirzba is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke University’s Divinity School and Research Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke’s Nicholas School for the Environment. He is the author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (Oxford University Press, 2007); Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and, most recently (with Fred Bahnson), Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation (IVP Books, 2012).

Reviews

—Mary Evelyn Tucker:
This is a marvelous collection of essays with immense creative potential. Indeed, Being-in-Creation is opening up the doors of continental philosophy to shape a rich ecological theology. A groundbreaking contribution!

—Clayton Crockett:
“Being-in-Creation, edited by Benson, Treanor, and Wirzba is a well-conceived and beautifully-executed collection of essays on a vitally important topic. In a situation of acute ecological crisis, we require the resources of all of our philosophical, theological and religious traditions, including the rich veins opened up for us here by the contributors, to offer us new ways of thinking about and living in the world.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World Brian Treanor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence Rowan Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality Jarrod Longbons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety Norman Wirzba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis Bruce Foltz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien Christina M. Gschwandtner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Creature Discomforts: Levinas’s Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo Jeffrey Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Refl ections from Thoreau’s Concord Edward F. Mooney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Creation and the Glory of Creatures Janet Martin Soskice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs T. Wilson Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine Susan Pyke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Creation; Creatureliness; Nature; Environment; Ecology; Faith; Religion

eBook

Published: September 1, 2015
ISBN: 9780823265022